• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Scripting changes from AE4 to CS6?

  Posted by Shane Betts on May 22, 2013 at 3:50 am

  Hi guys

  Sorry for the dopey question but I’m trying to set up an expression in CS6, using an example (or examples) I found on the net in some old tutee for AE4. But, when I paste the sample expression into my CS6 comp, it returns errors, the prime one being “Expected: ;” in Line 2.

  Anyone with any thoughts? Thanks heaps in advance.

  Cheers
  Bettsy

  if ($.os.indexOf("Mac") != -1)
myPath = "/ae_texts/";
else
myPath = "file://c:ae_texts";
myPath += "text_1.txt";
$.evalFile (myPath);
eval(thisComp.name);sentences = type.split("$");
m = thisLayer.marker.nearestKey(time);n = m.index;
if (time < thisLayer.marker.nearestKey(time).time) {n = n-1}
subtitle = sentences[n];
subtitle

  Shane Betts replied 13 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 7 Replies
• 7 Replies

• 

  Dan Ebberts

  May 22, 2013 at 4:39 am

  One thing I see is that the second line shouldn’t have the semicolon at the end.

  Dan
• 

  Shane Betts

  May 22, 2013 at 1:06 pm

  Thanks Dan. I remove that and now it has a problem with the if/else statement, which it doesn’t seem to recognise as one and calls the use of the reserved word illegal. Confusing…

  Cheers
  Bettsy
• 

  Dan Ebberts

  May 22, 2013 at 1:21 pm

  This doesn’t generate any errors for me:

  if ($.os.indexOf(“Mac”) != -1)
  myPath = “/ae_texts/”
  else
  myPath = “file://c:ae_texts”;
  myPath += “text_1.txt”;

  Dan
• 

  Shane Betts

  May 22, 2013 at 1:25 pm

  Hey thanks Dan! You rock. I’ll try that and work outwards from there, although I can probably get by without the extra goodies anyway.

  Cheers
  Bettsy
• 

  Shane Betts

  May 24, 2013 at 10:01 am

  Hey Dan

  Finally had the chance to try that. For me this returns the file path as the text in the composition. In other words, my comp now displays /ae_texts/text_1.txt rather than the content of that file or any warning that it can’t find or read the file.

  Cheers
  Bettsy
• 

  Dan Ebberts

  May 24, 2013 at 2:48 pm

  That was just to fix the first error message you were getting–it was just meant to replace the first five lines of your expression.

  The only other thing I can see that doesn’t look right is the “<” character in the last if statement has been replaced with the HTML equivalent, but that could have happened when you pasted your code into the forum if you did a Preview Post before posting it, so it may not be that way in your original code.

  Dan
• 

  Shane Betts

  May 24, 2013 at 2:52 pm

  Hey Dan. I really appreciate your time on this. I have trolled this forum a little more and I believe I have found another post of yours with a solution.

  I’ll also look out the html substitution when I’m working from online tutes.

  Thanks mate!

  Cheers
  Bettsy

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